Shoaib Akhtar banned for hitting team-mate

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Pakistan have banned Shoaib Akhtar, their fast bowler, for 13 international matches and fined him £42,500 for hitting a teammate with a bat and other offences.

Akhtar struck Mohammad Asif, his fellow fast bowler, after team practice in Johannesburg before the start of the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup last month. He was expelled from the team and sent back home.

“He has been banned for 13 international matches consecutively - it will start from the first Twenty20 match in South Africa [last month]” said Shafqat Naghmi, the Pakistan Cricket Board’s chief operating officer.